Roland Gift presents Fine Young Cannibals at 40 anniversary shows.
Forty years since double Brit-Award winners, The Fine Young Cannibals (FYC), stormed into the UK charts with their debut single and album in 1985, lead singer, Roland Gift presents Fine Young Cannibals at 40, at the London Palladium on 2 October and Birmingham Symphony Hall, on 12 November.
As they celebrate 40 years, the band’s biggest chart hit, She Drives Me Crazy, has become one of the hottest tracks of 2025 so far, thanks to a Chanel handbag ad campaign featuring Dua Lipa and K-pop star Jennie of BLACKPINK. The track is bubbling high on Spotify since its re-release this March and going viral on socials with over 320,000,000 views across TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.
Forty Years Of FYC
Roland Gift said: “In the Fine Young Cannibals, we always used to say we wanted people to be playing our records 25 years after they were released, the way we listened to Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye – it looks like we did that, and much more. Johnny, Good Thing, She Drives Me Crazy, I’m Not The Man I Used To Be, Suspicious Minds, I still love playing these songs and people still love hearing them. So come and join us in London and Birmingham, it could change your life, at the very least it will be a great night out.”
Formed in Birmingham in 1984 by former The Beat bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox, with singer Roland Gift (formerly of the Akrylykz), their self-titled 1985 debut album contained the hits Johnny Come Home and a cover of Suspicious Minds – two songs that were Top 40 hits in the UK, Canada, Australia and Europe.
Their 1989 album, The Raw & The Cooked topped the UK, US, Australian and Canadian album charts, and contained their two Billboard Hot 100 No.1s She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing. In 1990, the band won two Brit Awards for Best British Group and Best British Album.
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